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Countering Mahoney's "Your home is your castle" slogan, Agnew ran a classic liberal-moderate campaign. He pushed for tax reform, open housing laws, took a moderate stand on law and order and called for the repeal of a Maryland statute prohibiting inter-racial marriages...
...bill introduced into the Florida legislature to repeal the 1913 statute was defeated yesterday...
CAMPAIGN FINANCING. Reform of the way elections are financed could be the most immediate legacy of Watergate. Last month the Senate Commerce Committee cleared a bill that would set up an independent commission for policing national elections, limit campaign spending to 100 per voter, repeal the equal-time provision of the Federal Communications Act to encourage broadcasters to provide more free air time for presidential candidates, and forbid the channeling of campaign contributions from a single donor through a maze of dummy committees...
...were Articles 51 and 52 of the Swiss constitution. One banned Jesuits from work in schools or churches; the other forbade them (and other orders) to open any new religious houses or reopen ones closed by the government. Last week in a national referendum the two articles were finally repealed-and only by a slim majority of voters, most of them Catholics, who only recently have edged out Protestants as the country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits "lackeys of fascism." Others voiced an outdated fear that Jesuits would...
...this repeal of human nature that baffles even the Republicans who still stand with Nixon. The "I run my own campaign" declaration and the "supercrat" image, which have been so assiduously fostered by the Nixon people for years now, are declared "inoperative." All this defies conventional logic-and that is the President's problem...